Erle Stanley Gardner Quotes
The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.
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Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
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There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home.
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There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.
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I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
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I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
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I'm trying to get to bed, and you guys are singing 'The Whole World's in my fucking hand.' I'd rather you shut the fuck up!
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Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand?What started out to be a joke, the law don't understand.Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man?Maybe this here outlaw bit has done got out of hand.
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There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature.
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And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.
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It's a great honour to be recognised and appreciated by your fellow colleagues.
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I want to get the maximum out of my career. Football is my life. And when my career is over, I want to look after my family to help my children. That is all.
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If you want to be famous because you do something well or badly, be it singing while fat or hitting balls of various shapes and hues, you have to be prepared to divulge. We live in the age of the chronic overshare.
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Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.
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In our heart, in the heart of each of you, let there be always the joyous certainty that the Lord is near, that he does not abandon us, that he is near to us, and that he surrounds us with his love.
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Fashion remains closest to my heart. I get genuinely excited by my collections - I never wanted to be a businessman.
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Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.
